Membership Types & Fees

MEMBERSHIP TYPES

AcademicJobsOnline has four membership types for employers:

Institution Level Membership: A
university/college or individual schools/colleges within a university
can use this membership type to manage their overall faculty recruitment in multiple departments for the institution

Department Level Membership: Departments (or similar units) within an institution use this membership type to post their own job ads and
receive/review applications online

Small Research Group: This type is meant for small
research groups or labs with only a few faculty to recruit for up to 2 postdocs a year - it has a lower fee

eDelivery Service Only: The eDelivery service is a free service designed for those groups which just want
a convenient and cost-free way
to receive application dossiers (including reference letters) and don't need any of our other services.
As always, it's free for the applicants as well

Each employer needs only one such membership account. An employer account is not
needed for reference writers to upload reference letters or for applicants to submit job applications.

FEES FOR DIFFERENT MEMBERSHIP TYPES

A nonrefundable annual fee, if applicable, will be charged to employers
for using the service, via our secure online credit card payment system.
You keep your membership active simply by purchasing new job slots whenever you need or renewing it for free for institutional members, and there is no additional or reoccurring cost for the membership itself.

Annual Renewal & Expiration: Currently enrolled employers can renew their accounts by selecting
Renewal from the Admin menu after login.
After a year and before a new hiring season, you will need to renew.
A warning and a link will start to appear around the appropriate time.
Each job ad uses one job slot, and unused job slots expire one year after the purchasing date.
A new job can be posted anytime before the expiration date of the job slot used, and it can be displayed up to 2 months after the expiration date;
hence the maximum length a job could be posted for is 14 months, and an extra job slot is needed to extend beyond that.
The system always uses the oldest suitable unexpired slots first for any new job postings.
There is no refund for unused or expired job slots, and they can't be transferred to another group.

The annual fee for a department level membership is US$450. The fee will
cover up to 7 job ads from one department per year (12 months). You can post more than 7 job ads a year
by purchasing more job slots (in multiples of 7) anytime at the same rate.
As a special introductory offer, new employers signing up for departmental memberships can post one job ad for
a year for the low introductory rate of US$150 instead of the regular annual fee.
Existing departmental members can also choose to post just 1 job ad for US$300 in total,
with the option to purchase 6 more job slots later (if needed, must be within 3 months) for US$250.

The institutional membership is free for qualified
institutions and it can be renewed every year. The membership allows the institutional
group and all the departmental and research groups within the same
institution to use all the services we provide for free, except for posting new
job ads. To post new job ads, job slots must be purchased first. The
job slots can be purchased anytime after account creation:

by the institutional group for US$1500
per 10 job slots, or 5 slots (the minimum) for US$1000, and they are shared/used by all the departmental and
research groups to post new job ads without any additional cost,

or by any of the departmental groups at a different rate (see above,
the same as without an institutional membership) whenever they are needed
and they can be used by that group only.

Any departments or units in a school/university with an institution level membership can sign up for using this service
without paying any additional fee, upon the approval of your institutional group managers.
A departmental group will use up its own
unexpired job slots first before tapping into the shared institutional ones.
Institutional members are not required to purchase any shared job slots, and the
departmental groups can use the services as usual.

The annual fee for a small research group hiring postdocs (not any departments, divisions, or any sized groups posting any regular faculty positions) is US$150,
which lets you post up to 2 jobs in total per year.

The fees are the same for groups who just want to post job ads and don't wish to receive
applications online at this site.

The eDelivery service has no annual fee and doesn't use any job slots.

There is no fee for applicants to use AcademicJobsOnline.

MORE DETAILS ABOUT INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL MEMBERSHIPS

The Institution Level Membership represents a significant cost
savings over the multiple departmental memberships within the same institution. It also
enables the institution to have better control over the whole hiring
process at the institution level, to make sure your institutional hiring
standards and data collection requirements are met.

The Institution Level Membership is quite flexible in accommodating
your needs. Here are some options the system offers:

Enroll any numbers of departments (subgroups) without any
additional cost

Create an institution wide EEO/AA form, generate fully customizable automated EEO reports and collect all the EEO/AA
and EEO compliance data in one place

Ensure all job ads follow a standard template if needed

Configure additional questions for all applicants or for all
hiring managers

Download all application data from all subgroups to your own
databases at once

Import applications from other recruiting systems into any of your current postings

A university can even have multiple institutional
membership
groups, and each group can operate independently. For example,
your
EEO office (or the Provost, or the HR) can own the top level
institutional group and use it to manage and
access EEO data of all the applications -- except it doesn't buy any job
slots.

Each school/college (or division) within
the university can have their own institutional group and they can
sign up their departments to use the service and buy job slots, etc.

A school/college within a large institution without a top level
institution wide membership can have their own school level
institutional membership, if that arrangement works better.